Live with Torie Robinson

Torie Robinson

Meet Torie Robinson, she is the founder of Epilepsy Sparks an organization based in the UK and an international speaker on the topic of epilepsy. Torie will join me today, April 7, as my guest on Instagram Live. We will chat about raising awareness by sharing stories.

Torie is a great resource not just to those in the UK but to anyone with epilepsy around the world. She is connected in the scientific and epilepsy patient communities.

Interview with Sky News

I’ve included a recent interview she did with Sky News on International Epilepsy Day below:

Join us

I hope you will join our chat today April 7, on Instagram Live @livingwellwithepilepsy at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm GMT.

Jessica K. Smith Founder and CEO; Executive Director

Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.

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